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[Pennsylvania]-- With Election Day 2018 only 13 days away, today PennEnvironment released its list of local and statewide environmental candidates that the organization is endorsing in Pennsylvania’s 2018 general election this November. This list includes endorsements for Governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and Pennsylvania state House and state Senate.

“While voters are barraged with campaign advertisements and mailers during the election season, PennEnvironment’s endorsements are meant to serve as a tool to help Pennsylvanians know how to cast their ballot for the environment when they go to the polls on Election Day,” stated PennEnvironment Executive Director, David Masur. “Political pundits keep talking about the potential ‘Blue Wave’ this upcoming Election Day, but Pennsylvania needs a ‘Green Wave” of victorious candidates who will stand up for clean air, clean water, and protecting the outdoors that we cherish and love.”

PennEnvironment’s statewide endorsements include:

Tom Wolf for Governor

Robert P. Casey for U.S. Senate

U.S Congress:

Rep. Dwight Evans for U.S House District 2

Mary Gay Scanlon for U.S House District 5

Rep. Brendan Boyle for U.S House District 13

Rep. Matt Cartwright for U.S House District 17

Susan Wild for U.S House District 7

Chrissy Houlahan for U.S House District 6

Madeleine Dean, U.S Representative District 4

Mike Doyle for U.S. Representative, District 14

Conor Lamb for U.S. Representative, District 17

Pennsylvania House of Representatives:

Central PA:

Rep. Scott Conklin, state House District 77

Rep. Carol Hill Evans, state House District 95

Rep. Mike Sturla, state House District 96

Rep. Patty Kim, state House District 103

Eric Epstein, state House District 105

Montgomery County:

Steve Malagari, state House District 53

Matt Bradford, state House District 70

Joe Ciresi, state House District 146

Mary Jo Daley, state House District 148

Tim Briggs, state House District 149

Joe Webster, state House District 150

Sara Johnson Rothman, state House District 151

Rep Tom Murt, state House District 152

Madeleine Dean, state House District 153

Steve McCarter, state House District 154

Melissa Shusterman, state House District 157

Philadelphia:

Rep Murt, state House District 152

Mike Doyle, state House District 170

Mary Isaacson, state House District 175

Joe Hohenstein, state House District 177

Malcolm Kenyatta, state House District 181

Rep Brian Sims, state House District 182

Elizabeth Fiedler, state House District 184

Rep. James Roebuck, state House District 188

Joanna McClinton, state House District 191

Rep. Morgan Cephas, state House District 192

Rep. Pam DeLissio, state House District 194

Rep. Donna Bullock, state House District 195

Rep. Chris Rabb, state House District 200

Stephen Kinsey, state House District 201

Rep. Jared Solomon, state House District 202

Isabella Fitzgerald, state House District 203

Delaware County:

Anton Andrew, state House District 160

Rep. Krueger-Braneky, state House District 161

David Delloso, state House District 162

Michael Zabel, state House District 163

Jennifer O’Mara, state House District 165

Rep. Vitali, state House District 166

North East PA:

Kyle Mullins for state House District 112

Maureen Madden for state House District 115

Rep. Karen Boback for state House District 117

Rep. Mike Carroll, state House District 118

Rep. Gerald Mullery, state House District 119

Lehigh Valley:

Rep. Peter Schweyer, state House District 22

Rep. Mark Rozzi, state House District 126

Rep. Michael Schlossberg, state House 132

Rep. Jeanne McNeill, state House District 133

Rep. Steve Samuelson, state House District 135

Rep. Robert Freeman, state House District 136

Chester County:

Dan Williams, state House District 74

Danielle Otten, state House District 155

Carolyn Comitta, state House District 156

Melissa Shusterman, state House District 157

Christina Sappey, state House District 158

Anton Andrew, state House District 160

Bucks County:

Rep. Eugene Digirolamo, state House District 18

Andrew Dixon, state House District 29

Rep. Perry Warren, state House District 31

Lauren Lareau, state House District 142

Rep. Helen Tai, state House District 178

Wendy Ullman, state House District 143

Pittsburgh:

Patrick Harkins, state House District 1

Sara Innamorato, state House District 21

Dan Frankel, state House District 23

Ed Gainey, state House District 24

Emily Skopov, state House District 28

Betsy Monroe, state House District 30

Summer Lee, state House District 34

Dan Miller, state House District 42

Anita Kulik, state House District 45

Pennsylvania State Senate:

Montgomery County:

Senator Art Haywood for state Senate District 4

North East PA:

Sen. John Blake, state Senate District 22

Lehigh Valley:

Mark Pinsley, state Senate District 16

Chester County:

Senator John Rafferty, state Senate District 44

Bucks County:

Tina Davis, state Senate District 141

Steve Santarsiero, state Senate District 10

Pittsburgh:

Lindsey Williams, state Senator District 38

Wayne Fontana, state Senator District 42

PennEnvironment uses a variety of criteria when making its endorsements, including voting record for incumbents, use of candidate questionnaires distributed and collected by the environmental community, and environmental involvement prior to running for office.

“Every election cycle, polluters spend tens of millions of dollars to get candidates elected who, if victorious, will then work to counter common sense and much-needed environmental protections,” noted Masur. “Every-day Pennsylvanians can use their power of the vote on Election Day to ensure that the environment also has an advocate in Harrisburg and Washington DC, by supporting the PennEnvironment slate of local candidates.”

“Pennsylvanians want and need leaders who will lead the transition to 100% renewable energy, work to solve climate change, stand up to the frackers and their lobbyists, and protect Pennsylvania’s great outdoors, added Masur.”

PennEnvironment is informing its members and the general public about the candidates’ positions and views, and is urging voters to support their endorsed candidates on the November 6th ballot.

UPDATE (11/12/2018)

Helping to get environmental candidates elected

This fall, PennEnvironment ran a targeted election project to help get strong environmental candidates elected to the Pennsylvania state House and Senate in some of the the state's most competitive races.

Over the course of 10 weeks between Labor Day and Election Day, our team of electoral staff knocked on the doors of nearly 100,000 of targeted voters who may respond to an environmental message or may not turn out without a friendly reminder.

And this effort paid off in a couple of close races. After knocking on 4,000 doors in the open state House race in Doylestown for PennEnvironment's endorsed candidate Wendy Ullman, Wendy was victorious by 500 votes. And in the open Landale state House race, we knocked on over 4,000 doors for Steve Malagari who won by only 600 votes.

We are excited to work with these and other environmental candidates who won decisive victories on Election Day 2018. To See our full list of endorsed candidates, go here.